14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 10 adopters have mixed feelings about the new Start menu, and while some people love the new approach with live tiles (borrowed from the Windows 8 Start screen), others hate it and would rather get a simpler layout like in Windows 7.
But if Microsoft’s listening to the first category of users, the company should discover that, right now, the Start menu is lacking one very important feature: the possibility of setting live tile transparency level.
Live tiles in the Start menu have the very same purpose as in Windows 8.1 and provide a decent amount of information without the need to open the apps. And while Microsoft has introduced a number of tweaks to the Start menu, including the transparency and blur effect that’s being used on the taskbar as well, live tiles retain almost the same design as in Windows 8.1.
Already available on Windows 10 Mobile
One of the things that Microsoft’s trying with Windows 10 is to create some sort of consistency between PCs and smartphones, and this is one of the reasons the company is now releasing the same update versions to both types of devices. This should help keep devices in sync, it says.
But as far as the live tiles are concerned, while there’s no transparency feature on Windows 10 for PCs, there actually is such a feature on Windows 10 Mobile. So bringing it on PCs shouldn’t really be a nightmare.
Windows 10 is projected to receive the Redstone update sometime in 2016, and among others, several visual tweaks and customization options are also very likely to be offered. It remains to be seen, though, if live transparency is one of the features that Microsoft might be adding, but word has it that a more important makeover, such as the introduction of interactive live tiles, is in the cards.
